Sticky ad on mobile covering content

Notitia-Media

I'm having some trouble with placing ads on my site. It's been a while since I did this the last time, but managed after some trial and error. Now everything has changed and is quite confusing. The one thing that I am struggling with is that there is a sticky mobile ad that keeps popping up on my content pages (WordPress posts), I managed to get rid of it on the front page, but it keeps popping up whenever I view a post on mobile and it covers the content as it sticks under the header as I scroll down (see attached image). I suspect that it is caused by the AI ad placement, and at this point, I would rather get rid of it entirely and just place the ads manually, however, that appears to be easier said than done. I would appreciate any help to get rid of the sticky ad covering the content on mobile, as well as some help on how to disable the AI ad placement so that I can manually insert the ads where I want. Please help.

Tucker_P_Ezoic

Would you be able to disable the right click protection / blocking you have enabled on the site right now?
We're working to identify the cause of the ad location, but without being able to inspect the elements properly it's rather difficult.

Notitia-Media

Hi Tucker, I was not aware that my site has this, I have certainly not actively disabled tight click. I have no security plugin. Trying to figure out whether it is built into my hosting or not. Is this just a mobile issue? Whenever i visit my website on my desktop I am able to inspect elements.

Imogen

Notitia-Media I was able to inspect the page and add in a couple of exclusion filters for the elements (here https://pubdash.ezoic.com/ezoicads/adconfiguration), can you please clear out your cache and check the site? You should no longer see an ad populating there

Notitia-Media

It doesnt seem to be working (see attached images). I was able to find the ad myself while inspecting in mobile (see attached image). Also tried to create an exclusion filter for .ezoic-autoinsert-ad, however, it doesnt seem to work either.

Notitia-Media

I really want to have control over where the ads can be placed, and I am prepared to place them manually, why isn't there just a button to turn off all this AI bull****?

Ethan

Notitia-Media We can look at turning the AI ads off for you. I'll get back to you when the tech team update us!

Rather than offer publishers the chance to turn off AI ads we instead suggest setting up appropriate ad configuration exclusions as turning off AI ads completely can have detrimental impact to revenue: https://pubdash.ezoic.com/ezoicads/adconfiguration

Notitia-Media

That is one argument, however, having ads appearing over your content is against Googles guidelines which can have severe consequences. Not only that, it can severely impact user experience. Both of which can have a detrimental impact on revenue.

Notitia-Media

Im using a block theme, and noticed that my header block was designated a div element, I changed it to a header element, but it did not solve the issue. For now I'm turning off ads on mobile until this is resolved.

Ethan

Notitia-Media Hi, I understand your point, but setting up CSS exclusions would also allow you to remove ads which clash with content. Nonetheless, I've turned off the AI ads for you, so you can procoeed with a manual setup

Notitia-Media

I did set up a site with ezoic a while back, and while there was some trial and error, I managed. I found it a lot harder now. I tried setting up some CSS exclusions, but to no avail. It got pretty frustrating at one point, so sorry for my outburst. THank you very much for your assistance.